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Radical Wordsworth : the poet who changed the world / Jonathan Bate.

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On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Bate, Jonathan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Wordsworth, William, > 1770-1850.
Wordsworth, William, > 1770-1850 > Influence.
Poets, English > 19th century > Biography.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Romanticism.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Intellectual life.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Poets, English.
Great Britain.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • 1. THE EPOCH
  • 2. A VOICE THAT FLOWED ALONG MY DREAMS
  • 3. FOSTERED
  • 4. THERE WAS A BOY
  • 5. WALKING INTO REVOLUTION
  • 6. TWO REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN
  • 7. BUT TO BE YOUNG WAS VERY HEAVEN
  • 8. STEPPING WESTWARD
  • 9. A NEW SPIRIT IN POETRY
  • 10. THE BANKS OF THE WYE
  • 11. THE EXPERIMENT
  • 12. LUCY IN THE HARZ WITH DOROTHY
  • 13. BY W. WORDSWORTH
  • 14. HOME AT GRASMERE
  • 15. THE CHILD IS FATHER OF THE MAN
  • 16. FROM NEW SCHOOL TO LAKE SCHOOL
  • 17. SURPRISED BY GRIEF
  • 18. THIS WILL NEVER DO
  • 19. AMONG THE COCKNEYS
  • 20. THE LOST LEADER
  • 21. A MEDICINE FOR MY STATE OF MIND
  • 22. A SORT OF NATIONAL PROPERTY
  • 23. LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO LOVE OF MAKING
  • CHRONOLOGY
  • SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX.

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